User blog comment:Flia/Canon material/@comment-775152-20111206042649

I definitely agree that the games are the ultimate arbiter of canon. The DMC3 manga, so far, hasn't been contradicted, so I would feel safe considering it canon. The comics and the novels, though, are contradicted by the games, even if by just a little, and should therefore fall into the realm of non-canon. I believe the anime was said to be canon, too. If there are any contradictions in translations of anything, games or manga, the language of origin should take priority. So, basically, that means the Japanese versions trump all.

DmC cannot be in the same canon as the other 4 games. There's too much different in Dante's background. We can give it its own set of canon. Marvel did a bang-up job explaining all the continuity errors in its comics by creating the Multiverse: No one says we can't do the same!